ABOUT THE AUTHORS

C. SIVA RAM MURTHY received the B.Tech. degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Regional Engineering College (now National Institute of Technology), Warangal, India, in 1982, the M.Tech. degree in Computer Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India, in 1984, and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, in 1988.

He joined the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT, Madras, as a Lecturer in September 1988 and became an Assistant Professor in August 1989 and an Associate Professor in May 1995. He has been a Professor with the same department since September 2000. He has held visiting positions at the German National Research Centre for Information Technology (GMD), Bonn, Germany, the University of Stuttgart, Germany, the University of Freiburg, Germany, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Switzerland, and the University of Washington, Seattle, USA.

Dr. Murthy has to his credit over 100 research papers in international journals and over 75 international conference publications. He is the co-author of the textbooks Parallel Computers: Architecture and Programming (Prentice-Hall of India, New Delhi, India), New Parallel Algorithms for Direct Solution of Linear Equations (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, USA), Resource Management in Real-time Systems and Networks (MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA), and WDM Optical Networks: Concepts, Design, and Algorithms (Prentice Hall PTR, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, USA; reprinted by Prentice-Hall of India, New Delhi, India). His research interests include parallel and distributed computing, real-time systems, lightwave networks, and wireless networks.

Dr. Murthy is a recipient of the Sheshgiri Kaikini Medal for the Best Ph.D. Thesis from the Indian Institute of Science and the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) Medal for Young Scientists. He is a co-recipient of Best Paper Awards from the 1st Inter Research Institute Student Seminar (IRISS) in Computer Science, the 5th IEEE International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems (WPDRTS), and the 6th International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC). He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering.

B. S. MANOJ completed his undergraduate work in 1995 and received the M.Tech. degree in 1998 in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the Institution of Engineers (India) and Pondicherry Central University, Pondicherry, India, respectively. From 1998 to 2000, he worked as a Senior Engineer with Banyan Networks Pvt. Ltd., Chennai, India, where his primary responsibility was design and development of protocols for real-time traffic support in data networks. He currently is an Infosys doctoral student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, where he focuses on the development of architectures and protocols for ad hoc wireless networks and on next-generation hybrid wireless network architectures. He is a recipient of the Indian Science Congress Association Young Scientist Award for the Year 2003. His current research interests include ad hoc wireless networks, next-generation wireless architectures, and wireless sensor networks.